Do Heroes Need Welfare Too? - Chapter 97

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Chapter 97

Though his voice carried laughter, Kyrillos’s eyes weren’t smiling at all.

The one who had thrown the dagger at him was the man who had just told him to turn around and leave.

It seemed he had returned thinking that he had discovered a corpse.

Most criminals return to the scene of their crime.

Most likely, he was probably the culprit.

‘There are no monsters around here.’

And a man who had just been leaving this place.

It couldn’t be a coincidence.

As the man moved, Kyrillos gripped his sword with more force.

However, the man showed no sign of backing down.

Rather, he laughed as if finding it disgusting.

‘Laughing?’

Normal people would feel somewhat tense when faced with someone holding a sword blocking their path.

This is because carrying a sword regularly clearly indicates that one is a skilled swordsman.

‘Of course, I’m not one.’

Kyrillos was hiding the fact that he was a mage from the public.

Even when visiting the Imperial Palace, he pretended to be a knight, even registering as one while going back and forth to the Mage Tower.

So to ordinary people, Kyrillos holding a sword appeared to be a knight.

He spoke loudly while feigning composure.

“Reveal your identity. I am the heir of House of Evant. The fact that you dare point a sword at me means you’re not afraid of our family.”

At that moment, when the man threw his dagger as if testing him, Kyrillos quickly swung his sword to block it.

Kyrillos staggered as his strength was overwhelmed even by the lightly thrown force.

The man twisted his lips into a smile as if he had expected this.

“As if I’d be afraid of some nobleman who can’t even handle a sword properly.”

“So you do know who I am.”

Kyrillos awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck.

“Then what would you do if I used magic?”

A round purple sphere the same color as his eyes appeared in front of Kyrillos.

The mana sphere rushed toward the man, but when he quickly swung his dagger, it turned to gas and disappeared.

The man let out a bitter laugh and then charged at him.

As if the earlier attack had been a mercy, he slashed past Kyrillos’s shoulder.

Kyrillos twisted his body with good timing, leaving only a shallow cut.

“Ugh…!”

“I just need to run away before the magic is cast. Is that the end of your attacks?”

However, after a brief moment.

The man fled back the way he came.

He couldn’t let him escape.

“Stop right there!”

Kyrillos felt a strange sense of elation as he chased after the man.

‘I knew it wasn’t the Hero’s doing!’

The monsters weren’t dangerous either.

With that great Hero existing in this place, there’s no way monsters would run wild!

Even in this life-threatening situation, his cheeks flushed red with excitement.

He threw away the cumbersome sword and chased after the man.

For some reason, the man seemed to know well about a mage’s weaknesses.

First, their frail body.

And second, the casting time for magic.

Magic doesn’t just appear with a “poof” just by thinking about it. While skilled or simple magical formulas can be used within a few seconds, usually magic can only be activated after complex formulas and calculations.

It seems that assassin knows I’m a mage who can’t handle a sword.

So when he saw that the magic I thought was my trump card didn’t work, he sneered at me.

But it wasn’t meant to attack in the first place.

‘Tracking magic.’

Kyrillos pulled up the corners of his mouth in a smile.

In his left eye, the traces where the man had passed were clearly visible.

Now he wouldn’t lose him!

“Ah, but if I face him one-on-one, I’ll lose.”

Should I call the Hero?

Hmm, Kyrillos let out a hollow laugh as he thought of the Hero’s face.

He had no intention of getting close to someone who kept their distance from him…

Ironically, the first face that came to mind at times like this was the Hero.

‘Still, if I say it’s someone who framed him, wouldn’t he come?’

The problem was that the tracking magic’s effective time was only about 30 minutes at most.

It was a short time that might end before he could notify the Hero.

As Kyrillos pondered while following the traces into a wide intersection, he encountered someone.

“Kyrillos?”

“Ah, Maid? …Hero! I just discovered the real culprit behind the monster attack incident.”

Kyrillos stopped in his tracks and shouted to him.

“I’ll go catch the culprit first, so please handle the cleanup!”

“Wait a moment, Kyrillos!”

Kyrillos ran past them without stopping.

He ran without proper explanation to close the gap that had widened again.

But he believed the Hero would understand his words.

If it was the Hero…

Adam explained to Iberis in place of Kyrillos.

“It seems Kyril found the culprit without us needing to make an effort.”

When he lifted his arm to check where he had just bumped into Kyrillos, red blood was stained on Adam’s sleeve.

It seemed there had been a battle.

Adam hid his arm behind his back so Iberis couldn’t see and said.

“If it’s cleanup, it’s probably a corpse. More than that, if Kyril is alone, there’s a high chance he’ll lose the culprit…”

“Is the culprit stronger than Kyrillos?”

“…If it’s the person I know, Kyril won’t be able to win in a confrontation with him.”

Adam’s eyes turned toward the distance.

“Not once has he been able to save a life.”

Adam spoke in a dry voice.

But Iberis knew.

How much emotion was hidden within those words. Even if he pretended it didn’t matter much, his true feelings weren’t like that.

“Then we have to follow him! Let’s chase after him right now!”

Iberis urged him in alarm.

However, Adam viewed the situation with a skeptical perspective.

“If we’re going to be late again this time, I’d rather not go.”

“They say it’s always too late when you regret! Let’s go right now!”

Iberis hit Adam’s back hard.

‘What on earth is he afraid of.’

If Kyrillos looks like he’s going to die, he can just save him!

If he’ll regret not doing it anyway, he should act first and regret later.

Adam’s eyes widened, then he slowly nodded.

From far away, Kyrillos’s voice could be heard faintly.

“Stop right there!”

Kyrillos ran while reciting the clichéd line that no one being chased would ever follow.

Adam, who had been watching Kyrillos chase after the man, suddenly stopped.

Then he grabbed her wrist and began heading in a different direction.

“This way.”

It was different from where Kyrillos and the man had disappeared.

Iberis asked Adam in confusion. Going this way seemed like they would end up in some strange place. The old Empire had many long, narrow intersections in the capital. If they made a wrong turn, they might get lost instead of finding the path they wanted.

It seemed like they would get separated from Kyrillos, but Adam was confident.

“Lord Kyrillos went the opposite way though?”

“We’ll meet up if we go this way.”

Adam quickly found a connecting path and emerged from the middle.

After walking for a while, Adam quietly stopped in the middle of the road.

Then he brought his finger to his lips as if telling her to be quiet.

“We should wait here.”

At Adam’s words, Iberis stood behind him and stared intently at one section of the alley.

It was such a narrow alley that it seemed like not even a mouse, let alone the man, would come out of it.

And then.

“…!”

Kyrillos’s voice could be heard from the opposite side.

The man appeared in an instant.

The man looked extremely surprised to see us, as if he hadn’t expected us to be waiting for him.

Even with his face hidden by a hood, we could tell he was agitated.

“…How on earth did you know?”

At this point, it was amazing.

Adam briefly explained that it was easy if you memorized the geography of the capital.

How could he possibly memorize all these small, numerous paths?

Unless he had been here many times.

Adam drew his sword and pointed it at the man.

“Damn it….”

The man gritted his teeth as he faced us head-on.

“Huff, huff, wheeze….”

With perfect timing, Kyrillos also appeared behind the man.

Now the man was completely surrounded.

He looked at us who had arrived first and gave a thumbs up.

He was busy lowering his trembling arm and catching his breath.

“N-now you can’t escape. Huff huff….”

Then a purple transparent wall appeared where Kyrillos was standing.

He wiped the sweat from his face with a confident expression, as if he would absolutely never let him escape again.

Seeing Kyrillos drenched in sweat as if he had run here alone, Adam shook his head.

‘Now I understand why they said it was dangerous….’

Mages are the type who hole up in their rooms and only do research.

Unlike knights who train their bodies and wield swords, they advance their research indoors.

Perhaps because of this, Kyrillos swayed back and forth like a leaf in the wind.

“Oh, this is killing me….”

Then, a wind that blew from behind briefly lifted the man’s hood.

When she saw the man’s face, Iberis’s eyes widened.

“That person is….”

It was definitely a face she had seen before.

He had a long scar that ran from his right cheek to near his right eye.

How could she forget?

It was the mercenary captain who had attacked Adam with a bow during the hunting tournament.

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